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met vertraging binnen. Soms valt het mee en duurt het slechts 2-3
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wachten. We doen ons best om alles zo goed en snel mogelijk te
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Productdetails |
| Artiest | Anasazi |
| Titel | Ask The Dust |
| Medium | CD |
| 2e HANDS | Nee |
| Genre | Progressive/Neoprog/Symphonic |
| Omschrijving | As far as progressive rock is concerned, there are
a few French bands that have nothing to be ashamed
of when compared to Anglo-Saxon combos. Anasazi
since its creation can boast of falling into this
category. Formed more than 15 years ago and taking
its name from an Amerindian tribe meaning "the
ancients", the group has not stopped producing
albums of very good quality highlighting
influences ranging from Dream Theater to Porcupine
Tree through the Beatles.
If the first albums were strongly inspired by
these bands, Anazasi has been able to integrate
them over the releases to better emancipate itself
from them and imprint its personal touch thanks to
the very distinctive tone of its singer Mathieu
Madani. Far from the clichés of progressive metal
singers who sometimes have the unfortunate
tendency to push their vocals to the maximum until
they overplay, Mathieu‘s rather pop and nuanced
voice brings to the band a significant
identifiable touch that allows Anasazi emerge on
the music scene.
After the release of "1000 Yard Stare" which was
an undeniable success, Mathieu took his time to
compose with the faithful and talented bassist
Christophe Blanc-Tailleur eleven new tracks by
integrating a new drummer (Anthony Barruel) and a
new guitarist (Bruno Saget) who took part in the
writing.
"Ask The Dust" (2018) is thus the fifth album of
the group with a cover as well worked as the
previous ones. It stages a merry-go-round whose
roof disintegrates, floating on an agitated sea.
One takes the measure of the suggested parable
which leads the listener to interpret this merry-
go-round as the representation of a society
gangrenous and shaken by its surrounding torments
to end up in dust.
"Ask The Dust" is a protean and dense record.
Anasazi has an innate sense to write accessible
titles but also more thorough. The listener is
sometimes carried away in a direct rock/metal
style (‘Staring At The Sun‘ and ‘Miles Away‘) or,
conversely, in more unstructured tracks in which
the saturated guitar contrasts with the layers of
keyboards reminiscent of Porcupine Tree (‘Feeling
Nothing‘). It must be said that Mathieu and Bruno
are not stingy in inspired solos while keeping
this spirit of synthesis.
If the previous album was very metal-oriented,
this new baby is more subtle in its approach while
retaining a beautiful power (the new drummer has
something to do with it) and brings its share of
novelties. At the forefront of this progression is
an instrumental (‘Once Dead‘) where the band finds
the alchemy between technique and emotion, some
electronic experimentations (‘Ask The Sun‘) or
even more convoluted constructions somewhat
similar to Pain Of Salvation (‘And The Grudge
(Still Here)‘) and a lot of Pink Floyd (‘Still I
Can‘t Hide‘).
This not enchanted, dark, pessimistic, personal,
varied merry-go-round illustrates an "Ask The
Dust" which is the manifestation of the band‘s
talent to maintain all the interest during this
long album and comes to confirm, in spite of the
changes of line up, an almost flawless
discography.
SIMILAR BANDS:
TOOL, RIVERSIDE, ANATHEMA, PAIN OF SALVATION,
PORCUPINE TREE, O.S.I., DREAM THEATER |
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| Prijs | €17,50 |
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